R. D. Fulk is Class of 1964 Chancellor’s Professor of
English at Indiana University. He is the editor of
Interpretations of Beowulf: A Critical Anthology (1991),
author of A History of Old English Meter (1992), co-editor
of Eight Old English Poems (third edition, 2001), and
co-editor of the fourth edition of F. Klaeber’s Beowulf
and the Fight at Finnsburg (forthcoming).

"Now the oldest English texts have a literary history for the
twenty-first century. One of the chief virtues of A History of
Old English Literature is the rich elaboration of contexts,
extending from the manuscripts to the literary and intellectual
world of Anglo-Saxon England, to the early modern criticism, and to
the most recent critical reception." Professor Daniel Donoghue,
Harvard University

"The need for a comprehensive introductory survey of literature
in Old English seems obvious, but none has been attempted since
Greenfield’s and Calder’s A New Critical History of
Old English Literature (1986). That volume had many
imperfections, including a heavy bias towards poetry, and it is
good to see that Fulk and Cain acknowledge the importance of prose
and tackle it with enthusiasm. … There are plenty of things
to admire in this book: excellent accounts of such relatively
neglected texts as the Old English Pastoral Care and Boethius, for
instance, and a rejection of the tired ‘elegy’ label
whose use undermines so much criticism of the shorter poems.
… this is a lively , accurate and practical introduction to
the literature for students, which will provide valuable
‘refresher’ material (including biographical
references) for teachers, too.” TOEBI

"It provides an excellent overview of the area … It
admirably achieves the goals of an ‘history’,
particularly aimed at the student market, and has much to recommend
it."Literature & History

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